Vigilemus
let us keep watch
Traditional Catholic daily prayer — the Mass readings, the Little Office of Our Lady,
the prayers of the Church, and the Fathers. Every text on your device; nothing collected.
Traditional Catholic daily prayer — the Mass readings, the Little Office of Our Lady,
the prayers of the Church, and the Fathers. Every text on your device; nothing collected.
“What? Could you not watch one hour with me? Watch ye, and pray that ye enter not into temptation.” Matthew 26:40–41, Douay-Rheims
Vigilemus is Latin for “let us keep watch.” In Gethsemane, on the night before He suffered, Our Lord asked His disciples to watch and pray — vigilate et orate. The Church has answered that request every day since, keeping watch through the hours: Matins before dawn, Lauds at daybreak, the little hours through the working day, Vespers at evening, Compline before sleep.
Vigilemus is that answer in one word — the same “let us” the Church uses whenever the priest says Oremus, “let us pray.” Not a command, but an invitation: let us keep watch together.
The day’s Mass readings in the Douay-Rheims, with the Church Fathers’ commentary on the day’s Gospel from the Catena Aurea.
The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary — Matins through Compline, season-aware — read it, or listen: every hour narrated, part by part.
The common prayers of the Church, complete with their traditional rubrics — when to bow, when to genuflect, when to strike the breast.
A calendar-aware novena tracker that schedules each novena to end on its feast, with litanies and seasonal devotions.
The whole Douay-Rheims Bible, the full Catena Aurea, spiritual readings, and search across everything.
Citations are tappable wherever they appear — from a prayer, a psalm, or a Father’s homily straight to the sacred page.
Every text is drawn verbatim from the Church’s public-domain patrimony — nothing paraphrased, nothing invented, every source named.
Every text in Vigilemus lives on your device and works offline. Audio for the Hours streams on demand from our server — nothing more. No account, no analytics, no advertising, nothing collected — your prayer life is between you and God.